Dish-cloth holder.



0. R. BYRAM.

DISH CLOTH HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. H, 1915.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

. hereby declare V and exact description of the inven- .vision of a dish holder constituting mentioned dish cloth loop,

DAVID .R. .IBYRAM, OFtTUPIER LAKE, NEW YORK.

DISH-CLOTH HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 11, 1915. Serial No. 13,629.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, DAVID R. BYRAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tupper Lake, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented a. new and useful Dish-Cloth Holder; and I do the following to be a full, clear, tion, the art to which it appertains to make use the same.

This invention relates to a new and useful dish cloth holder, and an object of the invention is to provide a, device of this nature, in order to permit the use of scalding water without allowing the hand tocome in contact therewith, which scalding water not only. sterilizes the dishes, but being so such as will enable others skilled in and thoroughly dry, thereby saving labor by obviating the use of wiping cloths or towels.

Another object of the invention is to provide a holder, which may be easily inserted in a lamp shade or bottle with the dish cloth on one end, so as to thoroughly wash the inner circumference of the bottle or shade.

Another object of the invention is the procloth holder constructed from a single length of yieldable wire material, bent to form a loop at one'end of the the sides of the handle loop being crossed, and one side of which handle loop after being crossed being curved or bent to form another loop at the other, end of the holder, to be partly engaged by a loop in a dish cloth. The extremity of one side of this dish cloth loop being turned into an eye for the reception of the side of the handle loop where the sides cross. The other side of the handle loop being extended within said first mentioned. dish cloth loop, and having its extreme portion turned into a smaller loop adjacent the and designed to be partly engagedby the dish cloth. The object in so constructing said dish cloth loop is that the first mentioned dish cloth loop constitutes va body loop, whereas the.

smaller loop constitutes an auxiliary "dish cloth engaging loop, which ylelds, and owing to the structure ofthe holder, the dish cloth (which i's-usually wet when-in use) hot, the water evaporates and the dishes become a handle for the holder,

end of said first;-

cannot be drawn so tight that it cannot be unfastened. two ends of the dish cloth untilitsloOp tightens, the yieldable auxiliary dish ,cloth loop will relieve the tension or loosen the loop of the cloth. Furthermore, 'the:jauxiliary yieldable loop maybe moved to 01165 side or the other toward the opposite. sides of. the body dish cloth loop, or maybe moved to one side or the other at right. an-

gles to the opposite sides of the body dish cloth loop, thereby constituting meansto loosen the knot in-the cloth, so it may be removed or detached. I

In practical fieldsthe details of construction may necessitate alterations, falling w thin the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

In other words, to drawatller-f.

forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure l is a View 'in perspective of the improved holder showing a dish cloth or the like carried thereby.

Fig.2 is an enlarged detail view of the holder showing the dish cloth detached.

Referring more especially to the drawlngs, 1 designates the holder as 'a' whole, which is constructed of a'single length of wire, bent upon itself at one end-as at 2 to form the hook 3. The-portion 4 of the hook, 3 extends away from the hook to form a curved side 5 ofthe handle 6, and where the.

curved side 5 terminates at 7, the wire is curved upon itself at .8 to form the other curved side 9 of the handle. The curved side 9 of the handle extends towardsaid hook 3. and crossesthe curved side 5 sub stantially midway between the hook 3 and the termination of the curved side 5 and forms one side 10 of the guard for the hook I 3, which side 10 is curved just the opposite to the curvature of the side 9 of said handle.

The curved side 10 of the giijard merges into a curved portionll', and beyond the curvae ture 11, the wire is curved forming the other side 12 of the guard, and at the extremity 13 of the side '12 a: hook 14 is provided, to

receive the intersecting. or crossing portions of the sides 5 and 9 of the'handle, thereby holding the parts 7 in" place. In attaching the dish cloth, the cloth. is folded to forma loop 15, and the oppositepassed through the hook 3, and then through "the sides of the loop' are about the sides of the guard and 'fhook, to which and the end of the broad loop of the cloth, as clearly shown in i is claimed as new and useful is l. A dish cloth holder comprising a single length of spring Wire curved upon itself to 1 form a broad loop at one end of the holder and a narrow loop at the other-end of the I 10 holder, one side of the broad loop formedinto an eye where the sides of bothloops intersect, so that the sides of both loops will pass through the eye, the narrow. loop constituting. a handle, and one side of this narrow loop being extended within and conforming substantially to the eontoun'of the broad loop and terminating in a dish cloth holding I ,loop, the looppf a dish cloth is connected.

2. A dish cloth holder comprising a single lengthfof Wire having, one end-bent to form a dish cloth engaging hook, one side of the hook merging into an extension extending 'jfrorn the, hook forming one side-of a handle,

of the dish cloth beyond the fold which side merges into a short curve at the rear of the handle and merges into a second extension forming the other side of the handle, which other side of the handle crosss the first side and extend forwardly of the 'handle forming a substan ially elliptical shaped guard approximately conforming to the shape of said hook and surrounding the hook,the opposite sides of the guard beyond the hook being designed to be engaged by the fold or loop of the dish cloth, the part or loop thereof being pa ssedthrough the hook and 'through, the loop of the folded cloth, one

side of the guari terminating in a hook to engage'the crossing portions of the sides of the handle.

In testimony whereof I. haveisigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses,

DAVID R. BYRAM. Witnesses:

RALPH HASTINGS, LOLA BOYS. 

